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-- -HrFE NEVWERRV RDTERMS-$l,,5o FOR Six~ IeoIT F. GRENEIKERotMONTHS, IN ADVANCE. iS rr ..VOLUME I NEWB3ERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18, 186 NUMBER 4.THE 1 RALIS PUBLISUED EVERY WEDNESDAT,At Newberry C. 1.,By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEXER,EDIT(*S A%N14PROPIEToRS.TERMS, $1,50 FOR SIX MONTIS, EITHERIN CURRENCY OR IN PROVISIONS.tPayment required invariably in advanee.)Avertisements inserted at $1,50 per square, forfirst inserion, $1 for each subsequent insettion.'Marrage notices, Funeral i9vitations, Obituaries,*nd Communications of personal interest chargeds advertisements.STONEWAL JACKSON.A Soldle#'s Story of a Soldier.(Fron te -ete York trkLc.VIRGINIA, July, 1 .S6.Among the prominent actors in th greatdrma Q the late revolution, thcre was onewhose curious figure riveted ever- eye. lewas a man between thirty-five and forty,drect, stiff, clad in dingy grey, with the nicasured carri-g, and brief curt voice of thesoldier on duty. When he sNmiled, it is. tiue"his fice was charming, and when his picrcing look grew soft, his eye was full of thekindliest sweetness, but his lips were habitually compressed, his glance kcen, penetratingand inquisitive un(ler the rin of the' fadedcadct can drawn dawn low uron the forehead.HMe rode ungracefully, thollgh not Lsadly, appearing t manage his horse ; ithout an effortof vihtion. In manner he was absent, preoccupied and rborLd, carried away appa- -rently by some possessing thought, whichrendered him oblivious ot time and Ie. Hewould raise his Land, so:netimes both hand,aloft in the htttest hours of the battle, andwith closcd eves utt--r half-audile prayers.Iis walk was a stride, which the most ardihtof his admirers would not have ventured tocall graceful. le sat stimY erect ra hiscamp stool, or in his pr at church, reflaingto Cj-y the luxury of reclining in 'tie leastdegree. *Ue was silent, shyf awvkward, homely in- dress and appearace, and constrnedin manner, without wit, w ithout bwuor, without any apparint endowment dist'nguishinghim from the duilest and nmst con;'on-placeof his spees. Aid vet this powcrfu;1v excited the admiration and -fection, not onlyof his own pzople, but of many of his adversari4 ; who in the homely fignr of StonewallJackson saw the enbodiment of goodness,military genius, b:.d almst unbroken victory. .]Lis life has been written, and need~not hereform the subject of separatc treatmient. Upto8, thkre we.s little in his career to attractattention. A'poor oy, born beyond the Ai!eghancysin Virgin-ia, lie managed to get to WesPoint ; thence passed as lieutenar.t of artiller-v-o Mexico, where he fought recklessly ; th enbecame professor at Le.tgton ; then colonglof Virginia volunteers at Har-per's FerryrinApril 1S61. Thence for-wa;-l his career iswelt knrowr-how he dceemd the f..te of thl tfirst ba.ttie of Manassas by th'e charge whichpierced the federe.1 center; how he marched 1in the dead of winter upon .Bath aud R fmey,drivjtng out the federal garrison there; andhow he then entered upon thme celebr-atedcampaign of the valley, which has maide thenames of Keinstowi. McDowell, Winchester,Cross Keys, and Port Republic, famous inmilitary history. From the valley he cameto the Lowlanmd?.nd decided with hris veterancorps, the hot day of Cold Harbour ; nextcame his defeat ofGeneral Pope at Cedar Run;then the rerrarkable march to Manassas inthe rear of Pope. foiloGed by the victorythere, and the two day's afterwards at Oxihill;then the capture of Harper's Ferry with 11,000 men anid more than seventy pieces of artilery; then Sharpsburg, where- he sustainedGeneral McClellan's main attack with hisright wing under Hooker,-an.d repulsed it ;then Frederi.burg, where he drove backgeneral Fran~ is column of 5.5,000 men, assailing the confederate right ; pd then Ch-ancellorsvilie, where with 22,000 men lhe fellenexpectedly on the rigt of General IIooker,and achieved thme greatest, perhaps, of all his1victories. He fell.theire, struck down, by an.ccidental shot of his own men, and thenceigrivard victory seemed to dehse: t the south4rn standard. The con,fedtrates repulsed thefederal forces, thereafter but never defeatedthem.The campaign alluded, to will always 1)e faenous in military annals; and tire character ofthe man who fought them a legitimate suhject of praise. Their effect upon the fortunesof the w~ar was incalculable. In other quarters the clouds might lower ; but here lightshone. Victories over astounding odds; extrication from perils threatening destruction,and defeat of advei-se combination~s so powerful that apparently no eiTort could resist :hrem ,were the phenonemna which aittracted to thissol'ier, the eyes of friends and enemies alike.Who ard what was the' man who achievedsuch great and uninterrupted success ? Thatwas the question in many mouths; and whatwva the secret of this continued tr iumph ,over.hsta: es which would have crushed the mostexperie'ed nmasters.of the art of war ? Thereply is si: ~. Jackson y as one of thoseleaders- en~ ard far between"-who aret>orn with a sc-re:;e genius for war-; andwho overcome mJ S'arriers in, their !xath bythe native supem * - ' .heir faculties. The~alities which cokst t: th character of agreat soldier are 'breaK 2 view, foresight,prdec ernterprise. :-.:,: imperturbatory must meet and work harmoniously inhim. Caution pushed to the. point of aparent timidity; daring so extreme as to appearpure recklessness; the gift of looking to themost minute details, and that of banishingfrom the mind all details whatsoever, grasp:ing the army und*hiui as a sharp and tempered weapon, and striking the great blow atthe right nmoent and in the right place.The mystery of n>ysterics is, that not seldomdo men possess this ra're and supernaturalgenius~ for war, without marked ability inother directions. Kot to go beyond thehome arena; Stuart, Ashby, and other prominent leaders of'the late war were not regarded as men of conspicuous ability ouAof theirspiere ; and Jackson was so co.nmdplace anindividual except in bis profession, that thosewho knew him best, never ceased to- wondert his success. With the singular ,exception:f the obstinate courage with which he foughtbis guns at Cherubusco, and Chepultepec head displayed, up to his thirty-seventh vear,io unusual abiiity.of any description . whatver. le was a commonplace lect'rer, a melicre writer, a thinker w ithout aparent oriinality, and in all the lesser endowments ofthe man of society was strikingly deficient.Ie seemned not to know what men meant byimagination and fancy ; he was ,without wit,Ltterly destitute of all appreciation of mirth)r humor ; and seems to have regarded bc71cslettrcs, and what is callied "good company" asperfectly fiv olous. Ilis most intirnate friendshiad never heard him utter a profounid or striking sentence; his 'vritings were innocent ofinvthing like force or orizinalitv. A fairind impartial judgment of the man, from anyhhinz xvih ie had cver said, written or per'rmed, would have bLn that he was merelyI plodding professor. Those who did. notoin ii this opinion would have dififered fromt in a manner not very flattering. There'vere those who conscientiously believed thatTaekscn's eccentricity amounted to insanity) mind.When the commonplnce professor, who;eemed to emerge from his dullness only olo something absurd, was placed in command> a brigade, people began. to laugh and shrugheir shou!ders. Instead of a chevalier, on a>rarcing steed, in s- lendid trappingz, andbreathing beauteous battle," they saw be,orehem an eccentric figure in a dingy grey>at, on a peacefClloeking cob, his -kneesrawn up, his body bent frw.rd, a !cather;tock sawing his cars, and 1is appearance, invery poInt of view, ungainly. They lu-hedson: they bcam qu !iet. ~ When he fQll athanicellousville, there was not a man in theimy who had not "known what wa in himroei tho. first." The name of "Poor Tornaksoni" wvas left to be disintered by his bio~raphers. Virginia had reco.gnized and salued, in his pearson, one of the greatest of herml~ortals -In truth under this dull exteror ,were thieolden faculties which make the king .of menuogy is easy, in presence of this great ca-ieer,'but let us dismiss all such unprofitablew ork, and' rationally inquire what 'erdowen~ s ent to accomp;ish the successes ofrack son.Underlying aill was a supreme sprit of comn>ativeness. It is a #mecy that he did not loveihting. lie reveled in it. War was horri>e in his eyes, it is true, from the enormous>blic nind private misery which it occasiond ; but he none the less loved the conflict ofppcsing forces. In battle, under his calmxterior, hte had the ( dadium crtain is.ou could see that he was a fighting animal.rom his ponderous jaw. We say "animnal,">ecause at such rmomeiKts dJackson, the comn>assionate Christian, became Jackson the vertable bull-dog. Ihis combativeness when~hus aroused, was obstinate, ernrmous. Toight to the death was his unfaltering resolve;nd his own invin.cible resolution was infuseduto his troops;. they became inspired by hisrdour, and were more than a match for twor three times their number, fighting withouthis stimulus. With Jackson leading themn person, on fi: with the heat of battle, the~toewall Brigade and oither troops whichad served' under him long, felt themselvesble to achieve imipossibiiiti.s. But comabavenessend military ardor do not make areat commapder ; without them no officeeran accomplish much, but more is needed to~chieve the glories of arms. Enterprise isecessary ; and this word for want of a beter, must e xpress a quality of Jacksen's mindhvich more thanr all else gave him his astonshing success. lhis rule was never to allowm enemy to' rest ; to attack wherever it wastnossible, and to press on until all oppos'tionwas broken down, and theO day gained. The'eiarkable activity shown in his comnpaigniss an evidente: that he possessed this trait asi general, in more eminent degree perbapsthan any of his cotempjoraries. A sluggishor unwary adversary was doomed already,wh~ he least expected it ;~Jackson was before him, attacking with all the advantages of,a surprise. It was said that he marched hismen nearly to death, and it was true. Butthese excessive drains upon their physicalstrength were compensated by victories, byspoils, and an imm:ense~ accession to the moralstrength of his comm ad. Yor did lie fail toreserve, thus thousands of. lives, whiichmwould have b . igt by more deliberate andcoventional wvarfare. HIe "always preferredto arriv-e, by forced marches, in face of an unprepared enemy, and drive them before hrm,with co: - 'tiyeiy small loss, to a more letisur'ly advamce which would find them readyto-. i a' hi? . I aimed to succeed rather b-sweat than blood. His famous flank move:ments proved a terrible tax on the strengthof his troops ; but after thir exhaustingmarch, the men finished the work withoutbloodshed almost. and soon forgot their weariness'in the sweet sleep which follows toiland victory.' Aggressive warfare was thefundamental principal of his military system.He preserved the pn'varving convictioi,throughout his wbole,eareer, that - the truepolicy of the South vas one of invasion. Sofar did he carry thi4 thatafter Port Republie, he was passionately bent on advancinginto Pennnsylvania, though~ General McClJIan was knocking At the doors of Richmond,with an army of 150,000 men. After the batties of the Chickahominy, he rose from hiscamp-couch, one night, where he was lying,talking with a friend, and violently striking thepillow with his clenched hand, exclaimed"Why don't we go to. Pennsylvania n.4 ?The Scipio Africanus policy i the best ~!To march, to'ma.oeuvre, to 1huk, to striketo advance, retreat, keep his enemy in covstant fear-such was his system. H1e neverrested, and took no account of hours or seasons. le seems to have considered all weathtr good to fight in, and to have discardedthe zeneral conviction of tmilitry men thatnight attacks are hazardous. The Bath cxpedition was undertaken in theilead of winter ; and, at Frederigksburg he projected andattempted to execute a final atault upon thefeder. ari'y, which was to begin "prcciselyat sunset." At Chancellorsvillc, at Y,ineo'clock at night,.when he fell, he was preparing f*r that movement of his left wing, whichwas to envelope General Jlookcr, and detidethe fate of the fe(ieral army. No other gencr,l living would have ventured upon so dar.geros an undertaIing ;ut Jackson had decided upon it with-ut ie tatior.It is not to be wondered nt that unwearvor inuluent oppouents became the vieti:s ofastrategy so holcl and aggressive. GeneralBanks is an example. A Inore ur.fortunateappointment could not have been made bythe federal government. Banks seem-s tohave been without enterprise, and grea1t1ywa'ting in that watchful cac which his position, in front of so dange! ns a ke, required.J.tks-n surprised him at Strasburg, anddrove him from the valley, almost r,ithoutresistence. The manoeuvering arollmi PortRc-utlic was another CxampI-le of his superiority to General Flremont, whose plan, of advncing N ith one column, upon ACkson'srm hik another was sent t.> int,.ee:t hi.m,was tarned aghit him and becamu the occaion of 1.is ruin. The rapity of Jackson'smarches in the valley campaign, and cxpedltion to the-rear of GeneFa Pope wa.: marvelous ; but there was somethi'eg.still morest.riking in the enterprise which suggested thesemovmnents. To a solier so fsrtilmin resources,so rai,1, daring, and unhteiating, victor:ywas almo'st a foregone c;nein:sion.T1he diffrence t).twern Cenarprise and fool.hardincss is that l'etsveen calculati n andchan-ce. Jtkson's tuii'rry. novements, werealvays based upon cl0oe calculationi, and hewas certainily not wanting im foresight andaution. He seems have know-n perfectlyweffwhat it was in his power to a4hieve, ands thoroughly what was beyond is strength.Ie risked much, upon many occasions, butippears to haive been justified in his caleuiaions of the ultimate result. It will be objiecited to him hy military men, that he hazardedtoo mnch, at times, and was only extricatedby good fo'rtuane. There appear's to be son>eustice in this ; but the resources of his geniuswere enormous, and Roubledl his numbers.Some of his ideas seem absurd, wvhen coollylooked at. When asked what lie would havedone, if, after the battle of Winchester, tbcconverging columns of the enemyJad cuthim off at Strasburg, he -replied he 'wouldhve fallga back upon Maryland for reinforcements." Such a movement must, it wouklppear, have terminated in his destruction;but it would be difscuit to find minh of hisoldcommand, who would Thave doubted hisultimate triumph even then.His genius was for g:-eat. movemnents, anddecisive blows ; and, thus, his services, became more and more valuable, as his rank increased. He was hetter as brigadier than ascolonel ; better still as m'jor- genergl ;and aslieuenat-general was best of all. It is useless to ask what he would have been as cornmander-in-chief without a operior at Richmond. But the brain which conceived andextect the campaign of the valley mustha. been equal to any position.Jackson's -other me: its as a general werereat. He was a bad1 organizer and ~discij-'narian, but admiir:able in his selection of menfor important cou'mand. iIe conducted hiscampaigns upon the soundest rules of mihitaryscience, and where he dive-rged from- the beaten ti-ack of precedent, did so from conside3rations connected with the nature of the contry in which he oper-ated, the peculiarities ofhis advgWry, or the character of the troopsupon weh jm depended.He*kept open, generally, his line of retreat,'-and proviled for disaster-though itwas hard to realize that failur-e ever ente,redinto his calculations. He had the soldier'.seye for position, and chose his gro~und bothfor infantry and artillery with the exactnessof geniu:; but if all arrangemerits were madie,and his p1lans re'quired battle, would fight onany ground. lie depended most upon his inufan try, but lov-ed artillery frong his early association with that branch of the service, never apper.ring s;e well pleased as wheni directig ini perecn the tire of his cannen2o. amid ashower of slot anl shell. When once engaged, he seemed to discard all idea of defeat,and to regard the issue as assured. And,what was more important, his mersMuied toshare his conviction. Even at Keinstown lieielieved the federal forces would have retiredin ten minutes if one of his own briga's hadnot been ordered to fall back. A man les.open to the conviction that he was whipped,could not be imiagined. His indimitable combativeness, it might have been said, 'made hinset his teeth against Fate, and endeavor toplnce his heel upon Destiny it4f.It may be said of him with truth, that hedeserved victory. No man was more carefuli.n t'>e use of every precaution' to ensu4e success. The idea that he blundered on withoutp'rudencc or system, and achieved his succes_:sosnly by some mysterious- good fortune, isa mre faricy. ,No soldier was ever less indebted to 'lnch ;' no one ever proceeded inmilitary matters upon profounder logic. leknew his strength and his weakness, but the.difference between him and others was, thathe made his estimates more correctly. Hedid not iovk t numbers only, but to morale,the situation, the spirits of his troops. Withthe thrce hundred of Leonidas, he would haveattempted great things ; with the fifty thousan survivors of Napoleon's Grand Armie,crusi:ed in*morale by Waterloo, he wouldhaie attempted nothing. If his men were onflre with ardor, and the enemy, though trebletheir number, were disorganized by surprise,or foi 'other reasons, he would advance to theassault wIithout fear of defeat.In every point of view, as we have said, hedesdrved success. No. general ecver made agreater use of mystery. le saw from thefirnt that he conjw6zided men of education.thought, spoculation-tie most inquisitive ofprivate s-ldiers. Without due prec-utiontaken they' were cei tain to ;no%r what it wasinexpedient for the i4ivate soldier to know;his designs would be penetrated, and be noised abroad. Hence his inscrutable mystery.Ile would not permit his men to inquire thenames of the towre through whic' they passed tand on the march agan, Gene-al MeCMt'llan at Richmnond issued a gein,ral orderdircc(ing'the troops to reply "I don't know,"to every q-y-tion. Meeting a man stragglingt ow.r.da cherry.tree he said, "whei-e are yougoing" '"I don't know," was the reply."10 whatiegiment do you 6elong ?" "I don'tk-now.".-"What do you mean?" 'I don'tknow." Jackson Inughed quietly and passedon. T1e-.aii that if his coat knew what hei he would take it off and burn it.I. weld encam); f,.r thegi:tht cross roads,a:d the quidnunes were in dispairjt their inability to (letermine toward what point of theeompavs he wouid march on the mioTrow.A bomut to abando.n the valey, he publicly directed careful.mnaps to be made of the region,as though intending a campaign therein.W.hen o.ne of his s.taff' engaged dinner a few.miles ahead of his advancing column, he adn:' oni'1hed h:im of his error. Ijor did lhe knot.vth,at the column would pass that point ?"H e ha'd the faeulty of waiting for his adversary. No man was ever more d'etcrminednot to be forced to fight before he was ready.Ilis ietreats appeared panic stricken, but werein rea!ity the deliberate movements of a master of the art of war, Hie was never* moredangerous than when flying. From dreanvsof success, and visions of complete victory,his opp onent.was apt to be rudely awaken d.In May, 1%02, General Banks, then at IIarrisoburg, telegraphmed that the rebel Jacksonhad been d: iven from the valley, and was inrpid retrieat og Rich,mured. *The commentarywa Jackson's swift and unexpected marchuponl Mulroy at McDowell ; his complete defeat of that offcer, pnd his equally rapid advance upon General P,anks at Hlarrisonburgberore which the federal comknder was forced in turni to retreat in confusion.Until all his arrangemnents were made noadversary could dra.w him into action. Whenthe moment came, he saved t-he offcer opposed to him all trouble on that score. Ile initiated the~ matte<r by attacking with all hisstrength. If one assault failed-, lie made asecond. I f his first line gave vway h3 broughtup his seccnd. If the second had bad fortune,his reserve was led int% actior-and if thesedid not at once retrieve the fortunes of theday, he placed himself in front of tlicin andled them'in person, full'y determincd to conquer or oie.There were few who failed him at such moments. The sight of Jackson upon these occasions, seemed to turn the heads of thetroops. T[hey forgot all'else and grew reckless ; an.d when men become acekless,. theyo far. Cedar Run furnished an instance of'this. The le:ft wing, formed of Jackson's veVterans, was broken ; antil in ten. minutes thebattle would have been lost. There weroe.noreserves to put in, nind Jackson rallied .thctroops in person. The result wa such as wehave described. %A single shou.t of "Stonewfl1Jackson E tone.wal1 Jackson !" ran along theline, aid it was re-formied in a mo~ment. Infront of them they saw a sword shiningthrough tihe smoke of action, and recognizedthe old faded cap, and pliarcing eyes of theirchief. The result was a new assault, and oneof the most important of Jackson's victories.his tenacity and strength of will seemed tohave no lim~it. Nothing appearcd to affectthat supreme -resolution. Snech a man is themaster of fate, and, with his iron hand, directs events. Napoleon trusted to his star,and Jackson, it was said, believed imf "hisde;;tny-a word1 whicnbhe construed, apparen a K mean ence::- nmnst his ceieIs.wherever he encoutereed then. There seemsto be good ground for the belief that. he re-garded himself as a passive instrument in thehands of Providence to accomplisl greatevents, and had sati ed timself that theLord of Hosts would uphold him. This conviction, supported by abilities of the first order, made him almost irresistible.His intellect, in all military maters, wasremarkably clear, sigorous and practical. . Ithas been said that theee are son nimble atndappreheusive spirits, whose natures appeartoo sharp and delicate for every-day work.To cut down a tree men do not use a rapr,but an axe. It has a rougher edge than therazor, but is more effective. Jackson's military judgement was a ponderous weapon, andstruclc straight at the obstacle. He was opposed to half way measures, and in favor of:decessive blows. Subtlety and dialectical ha;rsplitting found little favor with him. Heknew what lie wanted, and had a perfectlyclear idea of the means by which he could secure his object. Refinemouts of strategy occupied ht'lie of his attention. HIe-was for results' and saw how to attain them. Alone ofall the southern generals he was in favor ofatuicking the federat army, on the evening oftht battle of Fredericksbufg ; and at thecouncil of-ar, held on that occasion, is saidto have st-rtec4f,om a doze, when called uporfor his opinion, exclaiming, only half awake,"Drive 'eiinto the river." All his'views wereaggaressilte, and looked to attack, not defenS-.After Port Republic he said, "If-lc Presidentwill give me 60,000 mei, I will be in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania. in two weeks. ~1 will undirtake it with 40,000." After Cold Harbor,as we have secti, he again wished to advance,exclaimingl "The Scipio Africanus policy isbest." On the evening of the first battle ofManassas, Vis.elear intellcct, unclouded bysubtleties, heritations, or those pros and conswhich paralyze action, saw the whole fieldbefore him ; and he said, in his brief, curtvoice . "Give ine 10,000 men, and -I will bein Washington to-night."A few words more'will terminiite this basty sketch Qf Jackson's military character. Hewas an intense and concentrative thinker, hispiercing eyes saw far and deep. Withoutpower, &a we have secn, to utter, write orperform any not-bleo thing in the ordinaryIcomm-.:ce of human affairs, he brought to th.egreat game of war immense po.ers of analysis and combination. Sucess was an equation which he worked out with mathematicalprecision. When an event took-place like the1ap left in his line at the second battle of Mainabas, and Frednricksburg, o the falling(icy of the Stinewall Brigade at I'instown,his whole plans miscarried. It was the errorin thecaculation which vitiated the esuIt.Such were the faculties which seem, to thepresent wvriter, to have characterized Jackson,and .produced his extraordinary successes.But it is difileint to discard the ide, after ;fail consideration of his career, that~he wasguided in h,is arduous campaigns by. soinething resembling a species of intuition. Manyof his followers openly stated their belief thathc was "inspired," and the military critic willfind1, after all, in his career a certain intuition'o eiswhich cannot be classified or dejcribed. He seemed to possess the faculty ofseeing what was .the right thing to do at theright time ; not to come to his conclusion byany trai of logic, but at a bound. Othersexhbibited stipreme tident, tr'ined to the highest perfection ; but-Jackson's muilitary move-~ment-ed,rywhere betrayed that subtle thingcaldgenia. His glance was like the lightning which reveals the e7.i-re lan1dscape bea>re he beigihted travl r and sos iLi.<rgad.P'a ing from the characteristicks of Jackson the soldier,. we may find some poir ts oflinterest in the personal traits, of Jankson theman. -It is interesting to know how .cuchmen look and speak ; how they carry themselves under good or, bad fortifte ; In whatmanner they "live and move and have'theirbeilig. Jackson's demeanor upon the fieldwas quite absorbed, and at times absent-min.th, s though he were engaged in somesprofound calculation, or following some stibtletrain of thought. When spoken to at such momnts, his head turned quickly, his eye glitter-ed, and he listened with attention, replyi?in the fewest words possible. His tone wascurt but not dis;courteous. His bearing, hissmil'e, annthe ready band to his cap, on thecont-rary, were markedly courtcou.s nor hasthe present writer ever known him, under themost exciting circnstances, to loose thissimple and modest air of gindly gy'd breedig lHe was the most approachable of corpscomml!anders, and any private soldier mighthe sure of a friendly reply to any questionwhich he asked. There was no air of authorEy, offscial stiffness, hauteur, assumption 'or-coldness in his demeanor. He "looked likework," was unmoved by vairLy, regarded histroops as hi children, and when he fell, itwas nr.t the heart of wife an~d frie!id ajonethat felt the bowv, but thousands who no ionger felt the old enthusiasm, preluding victory. IThere is little doubt that the views of thepresent generation, including thc writer ofthese pages, concerning Jackson the soldierare more or less mingled wit-h undue gomiration. His faultsDre not seen ; his merits maybe'ecxaggerated, But as a m-an, h.is virtueswere recognized even by his oppone'nts. Thetrait of character which conciliated most theregard and respect of his enemies was theprofound sincerity and earnest ness of his naLt-ter truth and honesty. Life with him was1 sertus affair, and he seoived to havo notime for enjQvnent even. At West Point heRtuditd conscientious1y, avoiding all higher occupations ; in Mexico he betbok himself tohardlighting ; and at Lexington his wholeudO'l became absorbed in the performance ofhis hutidrum duties, and the earnest endeavour to discover-the will of his Mjker and con-.orm to that ;yill in all things.The students laughed at the silent and awkward professor, who found enjoyment apparently in nothing but religious excrcises andhard work; but they could not understandthe "great thoughts.and certain joys which.the taciturn soldier derived from his religion.We'do not venture, here, to state .the exict religious views of this eminent man. Himbas been called a fatalist from his ultra indiff-.erengg to danger; fatalism, proper, is an-urdity. That he held the Presbyterian viof predestination is certain ; but to discoverind perform the will of God, without regard,o that or any otier dogma, was his "meatmd drink." With him, his religion was hisife. It was the brdad foundation of all his'houghts and words and deeds. le seemedo live, consciously, under the eye. of God*ind to shape all his actions with reference tothe divine approval., Ue had no time to tbi*whether this or that in his character, ]?is acLions, or his utterances, was "coftventional'or not-pleased or displeased his fellow-men,Am I conforming my life toithe will of God 'was always, and under all circumstaaQes, his,illy qest on.Fromthis profound and controlling pietysprung his vir-lues, his peculiarities. his truegreatness. Contemplating the profound signmficance of hs position as an immortal soul,tarrying for a iason only uporxgerth, anddestined by its conduct here, to shape for alleternity. its own went or woe, all other thi.ngsbecanq poor and inconsiderable in his eyes;what men thought of him, how he appearedin society, what dress he wore, what food becat, what wo-ldly enjoyments he neglected,or what worldly honours he Aissed or secured. Something of the old spirit of the. Manof Tarsus was in the ficart of Jackson, whohad his meditations and his work, and couldafford to neglect the-Irple and the feasting,and endure all things for the faith that was inhim.It was impossible not to rcepct a maj ofsuch- elevation of "Aracter. But manythings even grow beautiful in Jackson whenhe became better known, and made men lovehim. I was a Man ofjeatkindness, of aniextraordinary sweetness of temper, tenderhearted, easily moved to pity, and all pureemotions. He was simple and unostentatiousin his -manner and habits. He cared not iwhat he ate, and would sldep in a fence corner -as willingly as in a bed. Ibis old coat wascovered with dust collected, from the battlefields of many regions, as he slept upon theearth, in rude bivouae, after the hard foughtd ay. All th is endeared him,to his csoldiers,at whose camp-fires he would stop to. talk irnthe friendly fashion of the officers of Napoleon,and whose rations he woul4 frequently_ share'.The giht of his faded coat erd cadit cap, wasthe sign to cheer, and "O!d Jack" was personally adored, as in his military capacity hewas regardled by his men as the greatest..orleaders. His manner was stiff ard his voicecurt, but his smile was-one of extraordinirysweetness. A lady declared it "angelic.", Itwas ce: tainly the most friendly imaginable,and charmed all 'who conversed with him.Even his peculiarities becamnr sources ofipop.ularity, and endeared him to his troops. Itwas said of Suwarrow that his men mimickedhi:n, gave him nicknames, and adored him.It has the same wiCe Jackson. IIis troopslaughed at his dingy old uniforin, his captiting for'ward on hii .nose, his awkwardstrides, his. abstracted air, and ehristbnig him"Old Jack," made him their first and greatest-fTavorites. There was one peculiarity ofthe individual, however, which they regardedwith something i ke su,nertitio.n, Wergfortu the singular position he bad of raising hishands aloft, and tl-en suddenly letting the armifall at his side..* On many occasions he madethis strange gesture as his veterans movedslowly before him, advancing to the charge.A t such mor.entslhis face would be raised toeaven, his eyes clesed, and hris lips wouldmove evidently in prayer. The same gefre*was observed in him at Chancellorsviile whileging at the body of one of his old command.Ie was plainly'praying, with his- hand uplifted for the welfar~e of the-dead man's soul,Jhekson dhied before lie reac1Nd thi age offorty, and had but two ye. rs of life for thedisplay of his great faculties. But the periodwas long enough. Ini that contracted spaceof time he acconfplished enough to, render hisname and fame immortal. Few human beingsever equaled him in the great art of 'makingwar--fower still int purity <.f heart and lifeIt was a nature almost altogether lovely whichlay under -the faded uniform of the great soldier. No stain of insinderity, ce meanness, orvaingloriousncss marred a character whichcoabined the lo&iest virtues of the gentigaan, the soldier, and( the Christian.lIe -s!eeps now, cold to praise or blame; buta poor writer, proud to have touched his hatnded followed him,~ offers this page to his ills'trious memory. J. E. 0.The recip. ,it of a Bible from a 1mission- ' - *.ry recently expressed great gratitude for thegift.-After the missionary had given him hisbes.t talk abont the riches and worth of the.ible, the recip:ient addel, "yos, I know wherQ